- Moojan Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary on the Qur'ánic Verses Concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines: The Stages of the Soul (2001). — Commentary on the first few verses of the Quranic Sura of Rum; nine esoteric or mystical interpretat...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The (2015). — Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the ...
- Zaid Lundberg. Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation (1996-05). — Progressive revelation is part of a coherent system of apocalypticism. Paper includes discussion of ...
- Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). — Constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist ar...
- Ernie Jones, comp. Bahá'í Teachings on The Universe (2017/2022). — Compilation of writings related to the cosmos, the worlds of God, and spiritual evolution.
- Hutan Hejazi Martinez. Bahá'ísm: History, Transfiguration, Doxa (2010-05). — An outsider's view of the role of ideologies in a postmodern era, focusing on Baha'i history, conver...
- Joshua Hall. Bahá'u'lláh and the God of Avicenna (2022-03). — Comparison of the teachings of Baha’u’llah on the nature of God with the philosophy of Avicenna;...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Bahá'u'lláh's (2008). — Examines the question: What philosophical viewpoints are necessary to understand what Baha’u’lla...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Mehran Ghasempour, trans. Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas: Tablet of the Right of the People, Provisional Translation (2007). — A tablet on the metaphorical character of this world.
- Bijan Ma'sumian. Baha'u'llah's Seclusion in Kurdistan (1993 Fall). — Reconstruction of parts of this mostly undocumented period in Baha'u'llah's life.
- Vahid Brown. Beginning That Hath No Beginning, The: Bahá'í Cosmogony (2002). — The dimensions of myth in the Baha'i Faith focussing on the religion's narratives of creation, relig...
- Keven Brown. Brief Discussion of the Primal Will in the Bahá'í Writings (1990-01). — Neoplatonic concepts in Baha'i metaphysics.
- Necati Alkan. "By the Fig and the Olive": `Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the Qur'ánic Sura 95 (2001). — A translation and discussion of an Ottoman-Turkish Tablet by `Abdu'l-Baha: his commentary on the Qu...
- Juan Cole. Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings, The (1982). — Lengthy overview of Baha'i theology and prophetology and their Islamic roots.
- Moojan Momen. Cosmogony and Cosmology (1993). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Lasse Thoresen. Creation (2002). — Contributing to the creation of a new civilization as a researcher or an artist means participating ...
- Keven Brown. Creation: The Nature of God and the Creation of the Universe in Bahá'í Cosmology (2003).
- Hui Bau. Demystifying Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of the Holy Mariner: History, Translations, Interpretations and Analysis (2016). — Lengthy compilation, with background information on the Tablet, and commentary from Bau, Adib Taherz...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Moojan Momen. God of Bahá'u'lláh, The (2005). — A close look at the view of God presented in the Writings of Baha’u’llah and analysis of the con...
- Harry Liedtke. Humanity and the Universe: Mirror of the Unknown (1996/2016). — A study of the origin and nature of the universe in light of Baha'i texts; creation and evolution; c...
- Juan Cole. I am all the Prophets": The Poetics of Pluralism in Bahá'í Texts (1993 Fall). — Literary analysis of a passage from Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm) in which Baha'u'llah identifies ...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Introduction to the Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas, An (2007). — Summary of the tablet Lawh-i Haqqu’n-Nas, Tablet of the "Right of the People," on the metaphorical...
- Stephen Lambden. Kaleidoscope: Some Aspects of Angelology, Light, the Divine Throne and Color Mysticism in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture (2004). — Miscellaneous notes relating to religious cosmology, angelology, color and “throne” symbolism in...
- Vahid Rafati. Keven Brown, trans. Lawh-i-Hikmat: The Two Agents and the Two Patients (2002). — Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn...
- Rajwantee Lakshiman-Lepain. Life of Thomas Breakwell, The (1998). — Breakwell (1872-1902) was a religious seeker who became a Baha'i in Paris in 1901, the first English...
- Stephen Lambden. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Baha'i Studies and Translations. — A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links ...
- Peter Terry. Marian Crist Lippitt: Short Biographical Monograph (1999). — Controversial both during her lifetime and after, Lippitt was a trained engineer who applied her rig...
- Peter J. Khan. Material and Spiritual Worlds (2010-12). — Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Baha'i Summer School, Hamilton, New Zeala...
- Farnaz Ma'sumian. Mysticism and the Bahá'í Faith (1995 Spring). — An examination of the Baha'i Faith's relation to mysticism and mystic themes and ideas present in th...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Adib Masumian, trans. On the Meanings of the Terms 'Angels' and 'Jinn': Provisional translation (2019). — Translation of passages from Tablets of ʻAbduʼl-Baha on the symbolism of jinn and angels in the Qu...
- Peter Terry. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics" (2018). — Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
- Christopher Buck. Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Study of Baha'i and Christian symbology, the "first academic monograph comparing Christianity and th...
- Jack McLean. Prolegomena to a Bahá'í Theology (1992). — Groundbreaking and thorough essay on the basic concerns of scholarly Baha'i theology.
- Bijan Ma'sumian. Realms of Divine Existence as described in the Tablet of All Food (1994 Summer). — Baha'i theoretical theology in the Lawh-i-Qullu'Ta'am.
- Moojan Momen. Relativism: A Basis For Bahá'í Metaphysics (1988). — "Relativism" as a means of reconciling the often widely-divergent theologies of the world's religion...
- Moojan Momen. Relativism: A Theological and Cognitive Basis for Bahá'í Ideas about God and the Spiritual World (2011). — A response to Kluge's critiques of his earlier article on relativism.
- Universal House of Justice. Research Department, Functions of; Etymologies of three terms (1992). — Two questions: (1) what is the function of the Research Department, and (2) etymologies of the three...
- Universal House of Justice. Resurrection and Return of Jesus (2008). — The body of Christ; the burial of Christ; His return; and explaining the Baha'i view to Christians.
- Badi Villar Cardenas. Retórica Gnóstica de la Espiritualidad en las Escrituras Bahá'ís, La (2002). — Este escrito contiene una sencilla exposición de la riqueza de expresiones gnósticas que abundan e...
- Christopher Buck. Sapiential Theosis: A New Reading of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Paradise (1995). — Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha...
- Henry Corbin. Nancy Pearson, trans. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran (1977). — An analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Mazdaism and Isl...
- Todd Lawson. Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif, The (1992). — The Perfect Man is the mediator between God and the World. He is the mirror in which creation sees G...
- Kavian Sadeghzade Milani and Nafeh Fananapazir. Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings, A (1999). — Theology and background of the "pen" metaphor — the creative force presented by the Manifestation ...
- Vahid Behmardi and William F. McCants. Stylistic Analysis of the Báb's Writings, A: Abridged Translation of Vahid Behmardi's Muqaddamih-yi dar bárih-yi sabk va siyáq-i áthár-i mubárakih-yi ḥaḍrat-i rabb a`lá (2007). — English translation by McCants of Behmardi's Persian article "Stylistic Analysis of the Bab’s Writ...
- Michael McCarron. Symbolic Cosmology in the Sufi and Bahá'í traditions (1997). — Introduction to some meanings of the various realms of God.
- Ismael Velasco. "Symbolism in the Badí' Calendar," by Robin Mihrshahi: Review (2004).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Stephen Lambden, trans. Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i Kullu't-Ta'am) (1984-06).
- Karl Weaver. Tablet of All Food and the Nature of Reality, The (2016). — Review of the Tablet's historical background, antecedents for specific phrases, English literary com...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Tablet of All Food, The: The Hierarchy of the Spiritual Worlds and the Metaphoric Nature of Physical Reality (2010-04). — Terminology employed by Baha'u'llah to describe the hierarchy of the spiritual worlds: Hahút, Lah...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Keven Brown, trans. Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas) (2016). — On some situations relating to a person’s private rights, in this case theft and debt, with a larg...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). — Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
- Betty Hoff Conow. "The active force and that which is its recipient" (1988). — Metaphysics of gender and the Lawh-i-Hikmat; universal spiritualism; social indoctrination of gender...
- Guy Sinclair. Three Stages of Divine Revelation, The (2002). — Shoghi Effendi states that the Kitab-i-Iqan "adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages o...
- Robin Mihrshahi. Wondrous New Day, A: The Numerology of Creation and 'All Things' in the Badí' Calendar (2004/2013). — Symbolism in the Baha'i-era calendar, some Shaykhi origins of the Bab’s cosmology and ontology, an...
- Juan Cole. World as Text, The: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (1994). — Shaykh Ahmad's creative use of mythic symbols can be seen as an escape from the limitations of the c...
- Iscander Micael Tinto. Worlds of God, The (2013). — Creation is an act of divine manifestation across five realms: Hahút, the unknowable Essence of God...
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Yínyáng Cosmology and the Bahá'í Faith (2013). — The yin-yang concept is pivotal to Chinese thought, culture, government, and ethics. It also bears m...
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